Around the world

The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial power.

On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.

Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters and young people

Time for a new mass workers’ party

Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots

The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass Junction.

Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved

’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.

Sosyalist hareket üyesi 3 Pakistanlı Quetta’da mezhepçi çatışmada katledildi.

The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state, Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.

It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the […]

Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides…

Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh

DSM comrades arrested and detained

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures

Socialist policies needed

SSM member, Suiher Daska and other left candidates were elected to the leadership of the union on the background of the coming struggles against austerity

"Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by Frances Harrison

Hundreds of people protested outside London’s Houses of Parliament on 14 April to demand that caste oppression in Britain be outlawed.

A surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC’s failure to ensure ‘a better life for all’; BBC2 April 24th and online

Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority

Following the launch of the WASP the work is ongoing to, on the one hand, complete the formal registration of the party and, on the other, sink its roots and establish its structures across South […]

Unprecedented stimulus package – a desperate gamble

Workers must take urgent steps to defeat capitalism and the right-wing.

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

University of Ibadan (UI): End victimisation of student activists! – Call for protest letters and solidarity

Paul Murphy speaks out as European Parliament debates Human Rights

Lively meeting of party members and supporters elects Lagos state executive

On 13 March, seven young men were executed in Saudi Arabia by firing squad.

Appeal for protest letters and solidarity

A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression

Peter Taaffe was invited on 10 April to give a series of interviews to BBC Radio local stations on whether there should be protests at Thatcher’s funeral.

Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s – and is […]

Angry, bitter and undeterred, hundreds of pensioners and activists rally in Lagos

Fifteen years without a pay rise – “We are like slaves of the company!”

Just over a month since the death of Chavez and with less than a week till the presidential elections, Venezuelans are experiencing the highest level of political polarization seen in years.

Mere sabre-rattling or real risk to lives of millions?

Thatcher’s bitter legacy

We must stop them!

Weak Israeli government will try to implement austerity budget, and would try to maintain the occupation, possibly under a new cover of "negotiations" with Palestinians. Resistance likely on all fronts.

Anti-bedroom tax protests attracted thousands of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh last weekend – reflecting the mass opposition to the hated ConDem policy.

No political voice for working class

Vic Paananen, who died on 24 March, aged 75, was a veteran socialist activist.

Three Socialist Movement Pakistan killed in sectarian violence in Quetta

Development of Bodu Bala Sena must be stopped

The rise of the Pirate Party is a transient expression of underlying anti-party sentiment and a protest vote against the policies and actions of the established parties

The launch of the Workers & Socialist Party was the direct outcome of the struggles of the mineworkers of South Africa throughout the course of last year.